objectless
Americanadjective
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not directed toward any goal; purposeless; aimless.
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having no object.
an objectless preposition.
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Example Sentences
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Sonja’s is an objectless yearning, deeper than nostalgia.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mefferd's piece is unique in that it is wholly objectless art �everything happens on and to the retina without mediation.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the same vehicle whence, a year ago, I had alighted one summer evening on this very spot—how desolate, and hopeless, and objectless!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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